Happy Mother's Day

To all the Mothers out there..... a very HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY..... and to my dearest MUM.... Happy Mummy's Day.... I LOVE YOU!!!.... and to myself.... Happy Mommy's Day!!! yeah.....

I am so HAPPY and TOUCHED!

On Friday, my Babe bought me a lovely PINK ROSE (though the colour in the picture below looks a little off) from her school bookshop for Mother's Day! This is the 1st time she is using her own pocket money to buy me a gift all on her own.... how sweet and thoughtful of her.....

Besides the Pink Rose that she bought, Amanda also made all these for me.....

and Daddy bought the PowerTap for me as a Mother's Day gift to relieve my aching shoulders.... how sweet.... incidentally, my sister and i also got one of this for our Mum as a Mother's Day gift too....

I am just so HAPPY today!

THANK YOU BABE AND THANK YOU DADDY.

I LOVE YOU ALL SOO MUCH!!!

Bedtime Yoga

Good morning! As promised, we got Amanda to do some Yoga poses just before bedtime last night; and we took some pictures of her doing it.... Amanda being a "little nightbird" (just like us) was of course delighted to perform and entertain us than to get her to sleep early!

Front and side view of the PIGEON POSE. Look at how serious she looks in this pose... it's just so lovely...... you may notice why is she doing yoga without the mat? Errr... well, the mats are downstairs, and we were to lazy to go downstairs to get it, hence she's doing it without the mat (though it was quite slippery).....

the TREE POSE

the WARRIOR POSE

the DANCING WARRIOR

the TRIANGLE POSE

amanda attempting to do the TABLE TOP POSE

Child Yoga

Last night, as Daddy and I went upstairs to the bedroom, we caught Babe in the room all by herself, trying to do YOGA... It was such an amazing and cute sight to see a little girl holding my Yoga for Women book in her right hand, whilst using her left hand to balance her stance....

No wonder it was so quiet upstairs.... so here she was trying to practise YOGA before bedtime.... haha.... Guess she was under very strong influence as both Daddy and myself are big fans of Yoga, and at times, she will also accompany us to the classes.... though she will be excused from some poses...

We were too amazed at her actions as we admired her pose, that I forgot to take a picture of her doing the Tree Pose.... It's such a joy watching our Babe grow..... Will get her to do a few poses some time and post it on the blog....

She was trying to do the TREE POSE!!!... and she was real good!!!Just to share a joke about Babe during one of the Yoga classes.... during the last 15 minutes of the lesson when we were doing the "relaxation" and when the lights were off and we were lying on our backs with hands and legs slightly apart... Amanda was sooo comfortable in this position that after a few minutes, I could hear a light SNORE..... that was so cute and all of us giggled.... and at the end of the lesson when the Master rang the bell gently to bring awareness back to us, Amanda was still sleeping eventhough all of us were seated up with palms faced together.... Daddy and I had to physically "nudge" her a little to wake her up....

Maths Enrichment Class

After having spent some quality time with Amanda, I just realised that my long neglected babe is rather weak in her Maths.... coupled with the coming SA1.... I am now in PANIC and beginning to feel the "EXAM FEVER".... English Paper 1 and Paper 2, Chinese Paper 1 and Paper 2 and Mathematics.... OMG!!!

ARRRGGHHH!!!! This is too stressful for a 7 year old! What happened to those days when 7 year old kids were sooo innocent and care-free??!!

Hence, we decided to enrol her for Maths Enrichment class..... though Primary 1 is very easy and both Daddy and myself could easily teach her, we decided against it.... cos each time I teach her, I will start screaming at the top of my voice and this may affect our relationship.... and for Daddy, he may end up teaching her SIMULTANEOUS EQUATION instead of PARTS.... haha!!!

Her 1st lesson started today.... Amanda was very happy, keen and excited to attend the class as she knows she is getting some professional help soon... look at her face!!!

Let's hope she will show vast improvement after a few months of professional help....

Amanda's First Official Art Lesson

Today, Amanda attended her very first official art lesson... You may be wondering why so many "Firsts"?.... Well, I was super busy with work for the past few years that somehow I tend to have neglected my poor babe unknowingly. I was too focused on work in the past... and reflecting back now, I feel really guilty for not contributing much towards her developmental growth.... So now that I am less busy, I have decided to go "full force" to make up to her for what had been long lost.....

Guess what her reaction was when I told her I had enrolled her for Art Lessons?..... Yes, she was totally ELATED!!!

this was what she drew on her first day.....

Chinese Enrichment Class

After the Teacher / Parent Meeting Session, we realised that our Babe is relatively weak in her Chinese, especially Hanyu Pinyin. We had totally not exposed her to Mandarin at all, other than those lessons in Nursery and Kindergarten.....

And words of advice from her Chinese Teacher was..... "please communicate with her more in Mandarin".... We felt guilty, as we were partly responsible, as we always felt Chinese wasn't so important, especially if she may not be doing her Secondary School education in Singapore.... But again, she's still got 6 more years to go before PSLE, and we didn't want her to suffer and feel demoralised and handicapped because of her Mandarin.....

So, without much hesitation and after having done our surveys, we decided to enrol her for Chinese Enrichment class .... Let's hope we will see improvements in her Mandarin. Will update my blog on this a few months later.....

Babe's 1st Baking Lesson

Today my Babe went for her very 1st baking class.... she had been bugging me to send her for baking classes for 2 years, but somehow I didn't... couldn't remember for whatever reason though....

So this time she was extremely excited when I told her I had enrolled her for baking class at Bakerzin at UE Square.... this session, she learnt to bake chocolate chip butter cake.

Look at the sparkle in her eyes!!!


OOPS!!! Caught Amanda in action!!!

Amanda has graduated from the baking class.....

Amanda's sweet creation..... oh by the way, it tastes fantastic!

Did you notice she made 1 special cake with the word "I love MAMA"?... We were celebrating mum's birthday that night and she specially made 1 cake for her beloved grandma.... nothing for mummy though..... :(

Acting Like a Grown Up

Kids will always be KIDS......


Look at Amanda trying to imitate me.....


amanda carrying my handbags like a grown up....

amanda looking cool in my sunnies......

My Babe's Birthday Bash

How time flies! My babe has turned 7.... Last year, I promised her that we would be throwing her a party when she goes to Primary 1 and she will have a chance to invite all her friends.... anyway, kids parties are meant for kids, and most of the invitees should be her friends, except for our relatives and some close friends....

So here she is, having her BIRTHDAY BASH.... only girls were invited, except for her cousin Darren, and some of her friends who came with their brothers....

Daddy and I decided that we will engage a MAGICIAN for this event.... Danny the Magician, will be responsible for the entire party including entertaining all with magic shows, playing games, popping the pinata, cake cutting ceremony, making balloon decorations for the kids and last but not least, he will also provide with the "door gifts" for kids.... That saves me alot of trouble of cracking my head on how to organise games and activities for kids.... All I needed was to get a caterer for the food!!!

The kids had lots of fun and so did Amanda.... The kids were so excited about the magic shows that Danny performed and there was full participation from everyone present.

Amanda was extremely pleased as she received so many presents.... she spent a very long time unwrapping all her gifts and playing with them.... What a memorable BIRTHDAY BASH for my babe!!!

Chinese New Year 2009 in Hong Kong

Yippee!!! Another holiday!!! We have decided to make a trip to Hong Kong during the Chinese New Year. This time, it is not for work, but purely leisure... how nice :) It was such a short flight, merely 3.5 hours, yet my babe vomited in the plane while going and coming back....

Amanda enjoyed Hong Kong very very much. She enjoyed the weather, Hong Kong food, Hui Liu Shan dessert etc etc... In fact, we had Hui Liu Shan dessert almost everyday.... Also ate sumptuous tim sum at Fook Yuen and Foo Lum.... good food and good service....

Places of interest we visited included Avenue of Stars, Da Yu Shan and Ocean Park. Due to time constraint, we decided to give Hong Kong Disneyland a miss, as Amanda had already been to Tokyo Disneyland few years ago.... As it was during CNY period, we were also very lucky to be able to witness the FLOAT on 1st day of CNY and LOVELY FIREWORKS on 2nd day of CNY.... The fireworks were splendid and we had the luxury of watching the fireworks from the penthouse of our hotel....

This trip was totally relaxing for us... rest & relax.... own time own target..... imagine, we even had time to take short naps and then continue with our excursion... or even walking out of the hotel at 1 am past midnight to grab some bites..... a perfect short getaway for us!!!